He's lived all over Southern California, throughout France and the Washington, D.C., area, but when it came time to retire, former dentist Roger Packard landed in Farmington and loves it.
Packard, 77, and wife, Barbara, 75, have been in Farmington for the past five years. They have raised five children, have 23 grandchildren and are great-grandparents of six more children. They also count two foster daughters from Cambodia and their families as part of their brood.
"We live in a great, great ward and neighborhood," Packard said. "My wife's health has declined in recent years and these people have been everything to us."
That's saying a lot for a man who served an LDS mission to France from 1950-53, was in the United States Army from 1953-55, and rubbed shoulders with the elite on the West Coast in Bel Air and Brentwood, Calif.
Eventually Packard found himself in dental school in Maryland with a wife and a couple of children in tow.
After 40 years in dentistry he retired in 2003 and moved to Farmington in 2004.
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